Cambio 90

Cambio 90 was a conservative political party in Peru that was active from 1989 to 2013. The party was founded by agricultural engineer Alberto Fujimori, and the party had an eclectic political base and an active grassroots campaign. Its main bases of support were small and medium-sized businesses, informal sector workers, and Evangelicals (who were active in shanty towns and mountainous rural areas), and it had 200,000 members during the first year of its existence. Cambio 90 was more of a front than a political party, however, as its unity was created solely by opposition to Mario Vargas Llosa. Fujimori's opening of Peru to foreign competition and the drastic rise of prices in the country cost Fujimori the support of small businesses, and Fujimori broke with the Evangelicals as well. In 2000, the party's ten-year reign was ended when Fujimori lost the presidential election, and the party dissolved in 2013.